School reviews scholarship proposal

CROTHERSVILLE - A new scholarship may be available in the future to students at Crothersville High School.

The school board of trustees and superintendent first must review and approve the proposal at the next monthly school board meeting, Dec. 8.

Preliminary details of the scholarship were discussed at Monday's meeting in the Central Administration Building.

Trustee Dale Schmelzle said he recently met with Superintendent Terry Goodin, Bud Walther of the Community Foundation of Jackson County and Ed Hall of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1083, Crothersville, to discuss possible establishment of the scholarship.

Schmelzle said the scholarship would be part of an educational program that would require cooperation between the school and the VFW.

"The VFW is willing to donate $10,000 if Crothersville Schools can match it," Schmelzle said.

The scholarship would be for a Crothersville student who has a family member who is a veteran, Schmelzle said. He added, however, that if there isn't a student with a veteran as a family member, another person who applies would be chosen.

The school and the Community Foundation will submit rules of the scholarship.

Included in a packet of the proposal given to trustees Monday night was a policy used in other school corporations. If there are no problems with it, Goodin said, approval of the scholarship would be on next month's agenda.

If approved, Schmelzle said, the Community Foundation would create the fund, money would be added as it is received and it would gain interest. Once a year, the VFW and the school would each put money into the fund.

How much the scholarship would be worth, he added, would be based on money generated in the fund.

In other business

Also Monday night, Crothersville school trustees:

-- Heard from Superintendent Terry Goodin about the announcement of weather-related school closings and delays. Goodin said information was sent home with students to share with their parents.

-- Approved a maternity leave request submitted by elementary teacher Sharon Markel. It will run from Jan. 26, 2009, to March 20, 2009.

-- Approved a bid received by the school's architect, Hal Kovert of Kovert Hawkins Architects, on demolition of the white barn that formerly housed school buses. Tiepen/Waskom Inc. will tear down the building at a cost of $12,500.

A new bus barn has been built east of the old barn.

Goodin expects the demolition to be done before the end of the year, possibly over Christmas break.